endemic

[Bailey]

Endemic
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean "belonging" or "native to", "characteristic of", or "prevalent in" a particular geography, race, field, area, or environment; native to an area or scope.

It also has two specific meanings:

endemism: an organism being "endemic" means exclusively native to a place or biota
endemic (epidemiology), an infection is said to be "endemic" in a population when that infection is maintained in the population without the need for external inputs.

mark nearly-ubiquitous Bailey

[Perry]

If an epidemic can be caused by some ill people (or puny, as we say down here) circulating among the populus, can an endemic be caused by staying at home?

[gailr]

My dad's family also referred to illness as feeling puny, Perry. It was the sort of phrase that made us kids laugh (albeit without moving any facial muscles!) until we were well out of the room. Otherwise, we'd have been left plumb tuckered out from discipline for mocking our elders.

But I digress. Peradventure that endemic illness is idiopathic.